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Behavioral Economics - a Positive Approach to the Analysis of Economic Action
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2007-6-64-79
Abstract
The author considers a new school of economic theory which is called behavioral economics - a synthesis of psychological and experimental approaches to economic analysis with a formal modeling of economic behavior. The article discusses methodological premises of this theory and some of its positive results which have recently been achieved. The specific traits of behavioral economics with respect to the rational choice theory are traced.
About the Author
I. Pavlov
Lomonosov Moscow State University; Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Pavlov I. Behavioral Economics - a Positive Approach to the Analysis of Economic Action. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2007;(6):64-79. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2007-6-64-79
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